Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Literatures in English:
Catalogs
IRIS (Rutgers Libraries' Catalog)
The Rutgers online catalog offers access by author, title, subject, keyword, call number, series, and ISBN. IRIS allows limiting searches by
date, language, format, and library. IRIS allows you to request books from other Rutgers libraries and books that are being processed, and to
recall books charged out by clicking on the "Book Delivery/Recall" button; you can download or e-mail search results by clicking on the
"email/download" button. You can also connect directly from IRIS to an increasing number of full-text periodicals-more than 30,000 as of 8/09.
Catalogs Outside Rutgers University
The Libraries Home Page provides direct access to the electronic catalogs of 12 nearby research libraries-
including Columbia, NJIT, New York Public, NYU, Princeton, Temple, and U of Pennsylvania. In addition, through links like "lib-web-cats", New
Jersey Libraries, and National Libraries, you'll find connections to several thousand more catalogs around the world--including, for example,
Oxford and Cambridge.
English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC).
A major project, ongoing, offering bibliographic information about British and American books from 1473 through 1800.
See also
EEBO - Early English Books Online and
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
in Full-Text Literature Collections page
of this guide for full-text versions of many works included in ESTC. ESTC is now hosted by the British Library.
WORLDCAT (OCLC)
A catalog covering thousands of libraries in the United States and abroad.
Provides bibliographic access to tens of millions of books, journals, manuscripts, sound recordings, scores, films and videos.
Search by author, title, subject, keyword, and limit by language, date, location, and material type.
Since WorldCat is not yet comprehensive for early printed works, you still need to consult sources like the
National Union Catalog for earlier materials.
(See Union Lists and Library Guides).
